Friday, April 3, 2009

WR 441

hello all.

This isn't really an introduction...it's just a semi-new poem. Cool.

"the difference between human and animal language"

When he hears the leopard's callWhen he hears the eagle's cryI use 500 words, naturally, totell a very poignant story aboutmy own bedroom and cold snacksWhen I saw the visitor, I saidplease. help. out. The basic machineryrequires only that you know the rules.

I developed an association betweenmagnets and language. Sara wash apple.I couldn't tell you the subject, I haveno grammatical competence, but Ican manipulate. The little plasticwords taught me how to enter otherpeoples' heads. We have developed aspoken language.

We have found evidence in fossilsof what we sounded like. Theevolution of speech is the key tothe best pizza and drugs.I am more human becauseI am a modern humanand have a round tongue.My teeth are crowded and Icould die. My larynx makesme more likely to chokeand die.

2 comments:

I love this, and not just because I'm taking Nash's class this quarter! Also, I had a thing for refrigerator magnets. It was fun when too many went missing. The image of them found in a back corner covered with dust when the old refrigerator was retired. That used to happen with the dimestore turtles when I was young.

I really like the last (here comes a pretentious word) stanza. Like- A lot. And I thought I read this as a found poem, and I thought it was really cool and weird as a found poem. I think its cooler as an original work.